week's top stories in today's news egypt's opposition calls for more protests as president versus a refuses to scrap the referendum on a new islamist based constitution. rebels in syria come together under one military command meanwhile more global calls to prevent the government from using chemical weapons are increasingly seen as a pretext for intervention. and massive crowds to see palestinians and liberated yes but it's a new group marks twenty five years in action for israel faces a global pressure to stop building settlements.

you're watching artie's that we can use review with me kerry johnston welcome. egypt's opposition is calling for more protests after president merci insisted on planning ahead with a referendum on a new constitution which is viewed by many as discriminatory even his decision to scrap the decree granting him almost absolute power was dismissed as a play on words a journalist held true in cairo says his unexpected u. turn has failed to ease tension. it does come as a bit of a surprise at the moment is people really thinking the president wouldn't move on his stance against the opposition forces demands yesterday is saturday they had a meeting which was dubbed the national dialogue meeting between political party leaders the president and his cabinet notably some of the key opposition forces that form the national salvation front that are behind the protests and sit ins in the last few weeks and not present the results of the controversial constitution decoration would be revoked which of course is president morsi sweeping powers

which is part of one of the demands of the opposition forces and widely seen as a good move however they are rendered on the constitution which the opposition forces see to be illegitimate as it was drafted by islamist. constituent assembly would go ahead on the fifteenth and this is by the problem lies the opposition forces replied yesterday saying that the results of the meeting will meaningless as the president hasn't seen to move forward with that demand against this referendum . that it was really just another form of deception this comes off the minute she stepped up security around the presidential palace in the last two days that you see to statement yesterday saying that they were calling for dialogue and this was the only way to get the nation out of its crisis implying that perhaps they were willing to take a role in the ongoing situation in egypt we've seen quite a lot of violence on the streets since this one second of november when this concert of the decree was announced by the president as rival groups have met in

class which is actually the deaths of at least seven people on wednesday we have yet to see really what will happen in the in the coming future the president keeps by this referendum and i'm sure that the opposition forces won't move to really even though we had this development yesterday at this meeting they're still looking at a divided egypt a political deadlock. middle east history professor lawrence davidson says there is no chance of a single council referendum and that's not the situation may spiral into civil war if there is that if the vote goes and you get more sure forces you get that constitution pass. and i think the opposition knows that even if. they want to stop that vote i think would go through tears there is a leadership that was once here is that they want to start the process all over again it was zero actually a new election everyone knew harlem and.

new constitution so what are you going to do you're going to try to kick them out of power if you try to change the match for a new miss a civil war risk we're seeing the islamists going to the students as long as population in egypt. i don't think or. so we're it's a very very dangerous region and shouldn't judge the good of my own situation she asked how do you sense. that looks to me a bit more see is willing to. make some concessions right they're going to have to talk to him to get up and just force it's not going to work. well syria's rebels have joined forces on the one minute trick a month which they hope of united diverse groups in the west and backstop against a president assad this week the international community again voiced fear is that

the syrian government could deploy chemical weapons to defeat opposition fighters something damascus denies any teacher can assesses whether the chemical arsenal is a real threat or pretext for intervention. u.s. officials said intelligence agencies have detected that assad's government has been preparing its chemical weapons stockpiles for possible use the obama administration's message to syria the u.s. is ready to act if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons there will be consequences and you will be held accountable there will be consequences. there will be consequences we have sent a unmistakable message that this would cross a red line how does america the media quickly picked up on the alarming news of the syrian government's alleged plans citing secret intelligence for fox news confirms that syrian troops now have the deadly nerve agent sarin gas weaponized and at the

ready the syrian government flatly denied the possibility saying it would not use such weapons against its people. we would not commit suicide we fear there's a conspiracy to provide a pretext for any subsequent interventions in syria by these countries they're doing creasing pressure on syria the syrian government sure knows that if they use chemical weapons it would give nato and some of their arab neighbors who are itching to intervene in syria the green light to go ahead with their plans america's itself says it would be suicidal for them to do so but with the fear and the hype building up over the use of chemical weapons against civilians in syria it seems the u.s. might be preparing grounds to jump the gun on this one the jumping the gun scenario is not new for the u.s. almost ten years ago the bush administration confidently presented false evidence to invade iraq we have and descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails the invasion triggered

a civil war that killed more than one hundred thousand innocent iraqis and years later all washington had to say about this was the president thought it was correct congress thought it was worth it of course i regret that it turned out a lot of it was wrong in the run up to the iraq invasion the us media was instrumental in selling the case to the public the congress never had any proof ever present ever of weapons of mass destruction all came from tony blair to the bush and congress are right now that the us has drawn a red line on syria it has made it clear it's ready to take action but how i'm not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of. a credible evidence that the assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people but suffice it to say we are certainly planning to. take action if that eventuality were to occur to american warships are

already near the syrian coast with some. one thousand u.s. marines and dozens of fighter jets on board on top of that nato is sending american german and dutch batteries of patriot anti-aircraft missiles to turkey's border with syria meaning hundreds more u.s. and european troops will be deployed to the frontier nato says deploying patriot missiles along syrian borders is a defensive step to prevent syria from attacking turkey i don't think there's any requirement whatsoever for patriot batteries on the ground in turkey again the patriot missiles are designed to really protect primarily against incoming theater ballistic missiles or aircraft the syrians are not going to attack the turks the turks of the most powerful military establishment in the region the largest army in nato and intervention in syria will be as bad if not worse than what we experienced in iraq the pentagon said they would need seventy five thousand troops to secure

syria's weapons of mass destruction the question on everyone's mind is are they seriously considering that kind of a message intervention because that could mean another you rock coming soon and invasion that could be followed by years of bloody civil war in washington i'm going to check on. what concerns over the syrian government's chemical stockpiles reached a critical level this week with reports it has begun mixing weapons components and loading them into delivery systems as the times correspondent says the possible movements of the stockpiles is to put them out of the reach of militants. every massacre that happens anywhere even in the suburbs of damascus we know these are people there in seal training by islamists gangs as well and sometimes these are protected by these weapons against themselves supported by saudi arabia some by cats or logistical support by turkey buying weapons in the black market in the middle east and as far as the ukraine as we already are we have to own our allies

the picture of missiles at the border with that latest high why do you usually hear the name u.s. officials cough chemical weapons being deployed out of ourselves are just completely absurd hype is saying that they are right the mixing of the components the components are mixed when you already have a weapon already loaded with this components which are kept separate and then the chemical reaction itself happens inside the missile after it has been wrong nobody is mixing any saying at the moment what we may speculate but with a certain degree of reason is that the league moving some of these chemical weapons so they won't be captured by some of this is well missed gangs in fact at beach a missile is an attack weapon is not a deterrent and although especially considering that the syrian army would never launched missiles across the border against circuit because they know they'll be attacking a nato ally and. now data about your private e-mails and anything you look up on

the internet and singing please. you live in britain so we don't get to throw some of us didn't get in the u.s. reaction from civil rights campaigns. that is to the great a protestant in the hands inch by inch israel refuses to abandon its settlement construction that story ahead after a short break. a forty nine year old southern california man was thrown in prison and charged with possessing materials to make an explosive device all because of his rather unusual wristwatch despite the bomb squad saying that his watch was not a weapon here waited custody for twenty four hours and was charged with the crime anyways

a spokesman for the el meter county sheriff's department said that the man's watch had all the components to make an improvised explosive device minus the explosive material you know having a lighter in your pocket is also everything you need to self exposure minus the gun powder but before we make a victim out of this watch where i have to point out one thing the watch she was wearing was designed to look like some sort of bomb with fuses and wires and switches so who's more idiotic someone who wears a device that looks like a bomb on an airplane or a government who convict someone for having the components of a bomb without that bit of the bomb that makes a blow up i'd say both are pretty dumb but that's just my opinion. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world

from the street and canada. change operation through. well. it's technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future hubbard. is artie's that we can use review our law as being a join up in britain which would allow police and officials to see who people are

e-mailing and when as well as what they're searching for on the web this point boyko explains it's causing a divide between those who say it's a vital to catch criminals and campaigners who believe private data should stay private. the way it would work if paused is that the police and security services would have unbridled access to your internet data by obliging mobile phone service providers and internet providers to store that internet history your data for a year and now the government say that it's a necessary move in order to safeguard the public and to fight crime that's being organized through the internet increasingly such as it extremism and paedophile rings but civil liberties groups are up in arms about it they say it's an unfair and infringement of your civil rights they've called it the snoopers charter and we hit the streets of london a little bit to talk to the general public about what they thought of the prospect of the government being able to snoop in on the e-mail history of their web

browsing history and their social networking history let's take a listen to what they told us how would you feel about the police having access to internet search history not so good without my consent i think it's something like my concern i wouldn't mind seeing right. with the. i wouldn't mind but only. on the very condition i think you have to have control of one area of your life or look them in one area just to have access to the home secretary to reason may she's behind the draft bill and she's been lobbying it quite aggressively and some critics saying in rather a bizarre fashion actually she said in an interview with the sun criminals terrorists and paedophiles will want m.p.'s to vote against this bill whereas victims of crime police and the public will want them to vote for it and it's

a question of whose side you're on now i've got mick pickles who's the director of civil liberties group big brother watch in the studio here with me now and then here's something to you on are all the people opposed to this legislation criminals terrorists and paedophiles. the home secretary suggests no it's politically ridiculous to say that everybody oppose this bill for those categories there are people from every political party senior law enforcement officers technical experts so i think it was a very crude argument above that didn't help anybody from the home secretary but we've got interpol saying that cyber crime is now one of the fastest growing criminal activities on the planet i mean the government's right there looking for some sort of solution to this growing problem while on the big thing about this bill is if you're looking for a needle in a haystack you don't solve the problem but it looks more we should have a new powers but they should be used against individuals known operations what this bill proposes is that everybody in the country behavior is monitored all treats the

suspects or they have it a very quiet some virtual idea from the home office and one that might all go to down to well with the rest of the government we've got reports that deputy prime minister nick clegg is preparing to oppose it because of the prospect of infringement of civil rights here in the u.k. . garza's leadership has vowed to keep fighting until the israeli occupation is over as hundreds of thousands of supporters turned up to celebrate the militant groups twenty fifth anniversary masses playschool leader. who runs the organization from qatar is now in gaza for the first time in four decades in a speech labeled extremists by israel refused to recognize the jewish state's legitimacy because of its occupation it is it comes amid a turbulent time for the region israel has refused to end its settlement expansion which has been denounced by the international community when it announced the building of new homes near east jerusalem on the palestine was granted nonmember

observer status at the un british m.p. jamie corbin it says israel is risking isolation. netanyahu seems simply to have not cottoned onto the fact that the vast majority of the rest of the world support the right of palestine we just support the right of palestinians and therefore not of occupation of the west bank two state solution is something that everyone is wonderful signed up to but the reality on the ground of still not having complete free movement in and out and the huge number of settlements across the west bank under settler roads and of course the problems of east jerusalem suggest that it's quite difficult to achieve it unless there's a real will to withdraw the settlements or palestine to develop and i don't see that will at all with netanyahu if he can't even rely on governments that are basically quite sympathetic to israel and israel's claims then he's losing out big time all around the world and he just needs to wake up i think the washington

support will weigh in very quickly obama has been reelected and the reelected president into a second term is at his most powerful and i think netanyahu might do well to remember that he also very much involved new self in the internal politics the usa during the election campaign that can't even did himself very much the administration the movement around the world for palestine for palestinian people is unprecedented netanyahu should wake up and recognize that. israel exports tons of fruit and vegetables cosmetics and other goods to the e.u. every year but it's lighter being labeled as made in israel some of these don't exactly originate from there where they are produced in settlements considered illegal under international law now there are calls to ban such exports or at least in force more accurate labeling ati's people all over investigates. produce of israel except this isn't israel this is the jordan valley in the west bank and this

farm is deemed illegal under international law the european union imports around three hundred million dollars worth of products from here each year now a group of twenty two n.g.o.s from across europe is looking to highlight the issue and it's published a report in which it claims e.u. imports make the settlements viable because they are produced in illegal settlements which are contrary to international humanitarian law should be banned to all to the european union now if this is not possible at least the consumers have to have the possibility to. to decide for themselves if they want to buy products which have been produced in illegal settlements your see farms this land is much concerned by the thoughts of european n.g.o.s he says he's here because his government told him it was ok to be here. because i was told he. saw a circle where i was told they could do it to morrow the state of israel told me time

to go i'll go i'm told i'm an occupier when i got here there was nothing if you and we made it. in denmark and the united kingdom goods coming from settlements in the west bank already has to be marked differently to denote that it's not from israel the collective n.g.o.s want to see this implemented europe wide here in europe there are many people with ties to the middle east region and they want to make sure they know exactly where their produce is coming from this is are you sure this comes from spain. is a palestinian living in germany she has family in the west bank and says the israeli checkpoints mean palestinian farmers are losing out to the settlers even even though you think they get jordan they checkpoints keep them at the checkpoints for days and. son. and then you can keep the vegetables anymore those behind the report into trade between the settlements in europe say they aren't

trying to organize any kind of witch hunt we're not talking about boycotting jews over here we're not talking about even boycotting israel itself we're talking about making a difference differentiating between. legal israeli products which should be washed. by european citizens as much the course the shoot and sentiment products which are totally illegal and should be banned and people should not be. online today and there's international role of us with a warning of a nuclear aggression this time it's gonna sound and i'm against the united states ever i see that washington accused of double standards and stopping the u.n. nuclear watchdog the report on site. check out the new let's say it is and it's sixteen. delivery on his new high tech eco friendly wheels.

from the cruising on the crowds. spain's beleaguered banks can breathe easy and now the eurozone approved a forty billion euro whiskey package for them in the first tranche of the paid out agreed in june which is worth a total of one hundred billion euros public's not taking it well that was people continue to suffer from tough cuts on the banks got a helping hand there's a record unemployment and a crippling recession spain continues to deny that it needs a sovereign bailout politician says the government has the crisis on itself. there is a fundamental flaw in the banking system which is. the government has basically taken over the banks the greed of the banking cartel degree of the central bank bailout banks. money that is not covered by anything the government intervening too much in the market. and the way to solve that problem is by

government withdrawing by shrinking the role of government by getting government to spend less and less and regulate less better economy back in order and that's what will one of. the job where you grow again and i'm here. so. failing companies being supported by government is only a very short term solution in the long term it is a disaster. let's update you now on some of the day's other top stories. just is clashed with police and ruling party activists in the bangladeshi capital dhaka at least two people were killed and nearly two hundred injured in your thirty's fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowds protesters blocked roads and vehicles demanding constitutional changes ahead of next year's elections. north korea may postpone its controversial rocket test for data this month is given no

reason for the delay but it's thought to be due to heavy snow around the launch site this included state insists it's in the launching a satellite but the u.s. japan and south korea are among those who think it's really conducting a ballistic missile test tokyo is threatening to shoot down the rocket if it poses a threat. it is technocrat prime minister says he will resign once the twenty thirteen budgets passed since the six year old mario monti's held the post on three separate occasions statement came shortly after that movie about a skinny announced he's going to try for his former job next year and whose party with jewish government support this week personally claims want is a steady policies of damaged italy in believes he can lead the country out of crisis. a u.s. drone attack targeting a suspected militant hideout has killed at least three people in pakistan four missiles struck a residential compound in northwest of the country with military officials saying a senior al qaeda commander was among the victims pakistan has previously stated

that such attacks by unmanned aircraft violate its sovereignty and are ineffective but the u.s. considers them a vital weapon in the battle against taliban and al qaeda extremists. hundreds of thousands of americans say they want to break away from washington residents across the land have signed internet petition saying they don't want to be part of the united states anymore portnoy a story. for the. war to wonder here is a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny. a perfect thing or you move forward. four weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by campaigning to break apart all fifty states have filed online petitions with the white house requesting to peacefully secede from this so-called perfecting union

a movement that's garnered more than thirty thousand signatures in north carolina where many like michael toggled. see independence as a symbol may twentieth a consistent one is the day that north carolina sated from the union and america's stars and stripes ripping at the seams there's no doubt in my mind that it is inevitable i mean something like this with the the debt this country has the rolling disunion among in the among the people they can't last forever and that's the lesson of history big empires always collapse under their own weight secession supporters like bernard first some say washington's weight of growing debt and loose wars government intrusion and a broken immigration system has become a bipartisan destructive force it's beyond reform you can't reform that federal government whether it's the republicans in charge or obama basically the republicans are just as bad as far as we're concerned they're corrupt and are out

of touch in southern former confederate states like north carolina culture and social issues play a big role for those like harold cruz who believes the u.s. is too big and thus destined to fail and the south general. were different country already and the united states we simply need our own government we have different values different belief systems critics have dismissed secessionists as disgruntled voters angry over president obama's second term however in this you thousand a presidential election obama became the first democrat in more than thirty years to win north carolina a red state turned blue with the promise of change four years later tens of thousands of voters in the very same state believe they'd be better off on their own. the average american the things they believe they're tired of the endless wars and here we are talking about invading iran now i can't think of anything more the

white house meanwhile promises to review and issue an official response to all petitions with twenty five thousand or more. signatories at least seven states fit that category that we used to be on the interstate driving along at thirty five miles an hour by ourselves with secession as a goal now are being passed on both sides in lanes by people going faster than we are and it's amazing because here we were thought to be radical fifteen or twenty years ago and now we're mainstream a mainstream movement to move apart marina porton i r r t. data stored on the internet in europe can be obtained by u.s. authorities despite the data protection laws that's according to dutch and legal experts who've seen a paper on cloud computing and as they claim the anti terror patriot act allows the us access to private data on the authors of the report acts on back says internet.